http://xchangexchange.com/blog1 An exploration about social stock exchanges Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:13:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Newsweek magazine recently wrote a story on Celso Grecco, founder of the "first" social stock exchange (Brazil's Social and Environmental Stock Exchange (BVS&A)). The article is a good one - and while it does include under one umbrella term of "exchange" ones in Brazil and South Africa - which are really online donor platforms - ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/06/04/brazils-social-environmental-stock-exchange-bvsa-celebrates-five-years/ The UK government continues to support its third sector and the development of a more robust social capital market by announcing it will fund new research exploring possible "standards" of how social return on investment (SROI) is measured. This project will include members from the public sector, social enterprises and investors and ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/05/08/uk-continues-to-support-social-capital-markets-new-efforts-aimed-at-developing-standard-metrics-of-social-return/ While this blog focuses more on conversations and activities in the blended value space - social enterprises, social businesses, and now B corporations - we've also spoken with some groups in the nonprofit sector who have - or are looking to - develop 'market-like' mechanisms. For example, one such group is Altruistiq (see ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/05/05/nonprofit-ipo-what-does-it-mean/ In case you missed one of the comments below, we recently heard from a team developing a social stock exchange - called the Green Stock Exchange (GREENSX) http://greensx.com - which plans to launch and begin trading in the summer of 2008. The Green Stock Exchange will trade shares in social businesses - defined ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/04/05/another-social-stock-exchange-in-development-green-sx/ It's official. Announced this past Friday afternoon at the 2008 Skoll World Forum - the Rockefeller Foundation will be investing $500,000 USD in support of studying the feasibility of a social stock exchange. If the appropriate demand and support are identified - the hope is to launch an exchange next year. Pradeep Jethi, formerly of ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/03/31/rockefeller-supports-another-exchange-effort-sse-london/ The UK is certainly ramping up its support for social enterprises. Gordon Brown recently annouced the establishment of a $20MM risk fund as part of a wider effort by the government to encourage social enterprises. Other activities include helping social enterprises compete more effectively for the (approx) $310BB annual spend ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/03/03/more-uk-rumblings-on-a-social-stock-exchange/ An event in Mexico City next week put on by this guy sent to me by Melanie Swan. http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/03/01/open-money/ Continuing good news in social capital markets developments. The Rockefeller Foundation - through its Impact Investing initiative (which is working to help facilitate the necessary infrastructure to develop more scalable, efficient social capital markets) - recently announced a grant in support of B Lab (B Lab in the nonprofit organization ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/02/29/blab-and-the-bx-public-stock-exchange-for-b-corporations/ Realizing that the Social Capital Market has reached a point its own index is needed - the folks at xigi.net have just launched the Social Capital Index which will track investments in the social capital market - including social enterprise, (health, education and workforce development) fair trade, digital inclusion, and ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/02/24/xiginet-launches-first-social-capital-index/ Keystone - a UK based consultancy led by David Bonbright - has just launched a new report entitled: 'Online Philanthropy Markets: from ‘Feel-Good’ Giving to Effective Social Investing'?  (Iam including here their own description, although have also read it through). This report examines the rapidly expanding phenomenon of online philanthropy markets ... http://xchangexchange.com/blog1/2008/02/19/analysis-of-online-marketplaces-opens-dialogue-on-key-questions/